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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The National Ganga Council (NGC), which is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for the first time at Kanpur with the proposal to save and enhance the population of the Gangetic Dolphin, to discuss the concept of “River Cities” and an action plan to provide sewer connection to every household in towns along the Ganga and its tributaries.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is an expectation that at the meeting a programme called “Project Dolphin”, along the lines of “Project Tiger” will be cleared to enhance the population of these dolphins.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Gangetic river dolphins were officially discovered in 1801 and are one of the oldest creatures in the world along with some species of turtles, crocodiles and sharks, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They once lived in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, but are now mostly extinct from many of its early distribution ranges.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 2009, the Gangetic dolphins were declared India’s National Aquatic animal during the first meeting of the erstwhile National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) and it is placed under the “endangered” category by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Gangetic river dolphins can only live in freshwater, are blind and catch their prey in a unique manner, using ultrasonic sound waves. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These dolphins prefer deep waters and, as per WWF, they are distributed across seven states in India: Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Their numbers have dwindled in the last few decades mainly because of direct killing, habitat fragmentation by dams and barrages and indiscriminate fishing.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In Assam, the assessment was carried out in three rivers, with the Brahmaputra accounting for 877 of the 962 dolphins in the state. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In addition to the species being India’s national aquatic animal, the Gangetic dolphin has been notified by the Assam government as the state aquatic animal, too. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Silting and sand lifting from rivers in Assam has been stopped to maintain its population.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some of the efforts made to preserve and increase the numbers of these dolphins include the setting up of the Conservation Action Plan for the Gangetic Dolphin (2010-2020), which has identified threats to Gangetic dolphins and impact of river traffic, irrigation canals and depletion of prey-base on dolphin populations.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Additionally, the Gangetic dolphins have been included in Schedule -I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, which means they have the highest degree of protection against hunting. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The central objective of the council is to work on the “protection, prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution in River Ganga and its rejuvenation to its natural and pristine condition and to ensure continuous adequate flow of water.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The National Ganga Council (NGC), which is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for the first time at Kanpur with the proposal to save and enhance the population of the Gangetic Dolphin, to discuss the concept of “River Cities” and an action plan to provide sewer connection to every household in towns along the Ganga and its tributaries.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Background</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">There is an expectation that at the meeting a programme called “Project Dolphin”, along the lines of “Project Tiger” will be cleared to enhance the population of these dolphins.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Details</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Gangetic river dolphins were officially discovered in 1801 and are one of the oldest creatures in the world along with some species of turtles, crocodiles and sharks, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They once lived in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, but are now mostly extinct from many of its early distribution ranges.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 2009, the Gangetic dolphins were declared India’s National Aquatic animal during the first meeting of the erstwhile National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) and it is placed under the “endangered” category by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The Gangetic river dolphins can only live in freshwater, are blind and catch their prey in a unique manner, using ultrasonic sound waves. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">These dolphins prefer deep waters and, as per WWF, they are distributed across seven states in India: Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Their numbers have dwindled in the last few decades mainly because of direct killing, habitat fragmentation by dams and barrages and indiscriminate fishing.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In Assam, the assessment was carried out in three rivers, with the Brahmaputra accounting for 877 of the 962 dolphins in the state. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In addition to the species being India’s national aquatic animal, the Gangetic dolphin has been notified by the Assam government as the state aquatic animal, too. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Silting and sand lifting from rivers in Assam has been stopped to maintain its population.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>Protective measures</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Some of the efforts made to preserve and increase the numbers of these dolphins include the setting up of the Conservation Action Plan for the Gangetic Dolphin (2010-2020), which has identified threats to Gangetic dolphins and impact of river traffic, irrigation canals and depletion of prey-base on dolphin populations.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Additionally, the Gangetic dolphins have been included in Schedule -I of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, which means they have the highest degree of protection against hunting. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">They are also one among the 21 species identified under the centrally sponsored scheme, “Development of Wildlife Habitat”.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:0in"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>National Ganga Council (NGC)</strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The council consists of chief ministers from five states along the Ganga , Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand, Bihar and Jharkhand along with nine Union ministers and NITI Aayog vice-chairman. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The central objective of the council is to work on the “protection, prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution in River Ganga and its rejuvenation to its natural and pristine condition and to ensure continuous adequate flow of water.</span></span></p>
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